KARTARPUR (31°26`N, 75°30`E), municipal town famous for its furniture industry, 15 km northwest ofJalandhar along Sher Shah Sun Marg in the Punjab, was founded by Guru Arjan (15631606) in 1594 on land granted during the reign of Emperor Akhar (15561605). Guru Arjan`s successor. Guru Hargobind (15951644), resided here too for

KARNAL (29°42`N, 76"59`E), a district town of Haryana, situated along the historic Grand Trunk road, 123 km north of Delhi, is sacred to Guru Nanak. Gurdwara MarijT Sahib commemorates his visit to Karnal in 1515 when he held a religious discourse with one Shaikh Tahir (referred to as Tatihar in

KARTARPUR. village on the right bank of tlie River Ravi in the present Sialkot district of Pakistan and usually called Kartarpur Ravl to distinguish it from another town of tlie same name in Jalandhar district of Indian Punjab, is sacred to Guru Nanak (14691539) to whom it owed its origin

KARHALI, a village 20 km south of Patiala, has a historical shrine called Gurdwara Karhali Sahib, commemorating the stay here of Guru Tegh Bahadur during one of his travels through the Malva region. According to local tradition. Guru Hargobind had also visited the site while on his way to Kurukshetra.

KARHA SAHIB, a village 11 km west of Pehova (29"59`N, 76°35`E) in Kurukshetra district of Haryana, was visited by four of the Sikh Gurus. Guru Nanak came here during his travels to the eastern parts. Chaudhari Kalu of this village became a follower and is said to have constructed a

KARA, situated in Allahabad district of Uttar Pradesh, on the right bank of the River Gariga, was once a flourishing town and a provincial capital under the Muslim Sultanate and under the Mughals though now it is no more than a large village. Sikh chronicles usually refer to it as

KAPURGARH. village 16 km from Arnloh (30°36`N, 76"14`E), in Fatehgarh Sahib district, has a shrine called Gurdwara Dcra Baba Nattha Singh. Baba Natlha Singh (or Natha Singh) after whom the Gurdwara is named, was a Niharig Jathcdar during the early nineteenth century, highly respected by the rulers ofPatiala and Nabha.

KAPAL MOCHAN, an ancient pilgrimage centre of the Hindus, 20 kilometres from Jagadhri (30°10`N, 77°18`E), was visited by Guru Gobind Singh as he was returning from Paonta to Anandpur in 1688. He is said to have stopped at this place for 52 days. A small shrine commemorated the Guru`s visit

KAONKE, village 7 km southwest ofJagraon (30°47`N, 75"28`E), in Ludhiana district, has a historical shrine called Guru Sar, commemorating the visit of Guru Hargobind in 163132. Approached by a metalled link road, it is two and a half kilometres to the northwest of the village. The small square sanctum with

KANJHLA, village 18 km from Sarigrur (30"14`N, 75°50`E) in the Punjab, has a common gurudwara, called Jhira Sahib, honouring the memory of Guru Nanak, Guru Hargobind and Guru Tegh Bahadur, all of whom are believed to have visited the site successively. GurdwaraJhira Sahib stands where there used to be a

KANGANPUR, a large village along KasurLodhrari railway line in Lahore district of Pakistan, had a historical Sikh shrine dedicated to Guru Nanak. Local tradition established Kariganpur as the locale of an episode given in the Purdtan Janam Sdkhi. It is said that once Guru Nanak accompanied by Bhai Mardana came

KANECH, village 20 km southeast of Ludhiana (30°54`N, 75°52`E), has a historical gurudwara called Manji Sahib Patshahi Dasviri. Guru Gobind Singh stopped in this village for a short time in the course of his journey from Machhivara into interior of Malva in December 1705. He was still disguised as the